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Local modern-country music artist Maggie Thorn to release third album Saturday
(Entertainment ~ 07/14/17)
If there is any doubt 23-year-old country singer Maggie Thorn has recovered fully from lung problems that sidelined her from performing for the first five months of 2016, look no further than the "triathlon" she completed Saturday. Thorn performed a benefit show in the morning in Dexter, Missouri, drove to Cape Girardeau for an afternoon show at Isle Casino Cape Girardeau, then returned to Dexter in the evening to open for Darryl Worley at a fundraiser for U.S. service veterans...
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River City Players to provide big laughs, audience fun with 'All By Myself'
(Entertainment ~ 07/14/17)
"Destitute, alone and without a friend for these lonesome seven years," Larry sighs at the show's open -- and quickly learns to be careful what he asks for. "All By Myself," the latest production by the River City Players, will be performed tonight and Saturday, with a dinner buffet at 6:30 p.m. ...
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Tasty fundraiser
(Local News ~ 07/14/17)
Clarence Smith pulls a side of ribs off the smoker for a customer Thursday in Cape Girardeau. Smith was helping with a fundraiser for the young-adult ministry at True Vine Ministries. The young-adult ministry is part of the church's community-matters organization. ...
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Cape city, civic leaders unveil downtown trolley service
(Local News ~ 07/14/17)
Cape Girardeau Mayor Harry Rediger wasn’t going to miss the bus. Neither were several other city officials and civic leaders, who climbed aboard the new Downtown Trolley for an inaugural ride Thursday. The 12-passenger minibus, wrapped on the outside to resemble an old-fashioned trolley, was unveiled at a 3:30 p.m. ceremony on Middle Street near Broadway. More than 30 people turned out for the ceremony...
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Dutchtown faces decisions after FEMA flood buyout
(Local News ~ 07/14/17)
The village of Dutchtown has some decisions to make. Floods in recent years have prompted many residents to move, some taking a buyout from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. The population, which was about 94 in 2010, stands at about 50...
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Today in History
(National News ~ 07/14/17)
Today in History Today is Friday, July 14, the 195th day of 2017. There are 170 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On July 14, 1789, in an event symbolizing the start of the French Revolution, citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside...
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Pavers approved; park projects likely to draw more people
(Editorial ~ 07/14/17)
A lot of work is underway in the Cape Girardeau County Parks. Levi's Adventure Trail, a special playground, is under construction at County Park South. At County Park North, Freedom Rock has been painted, and now the pavers are going in. At a recent county commission meeting, park superintendent Bryan Sander said the existing sidewalk would soon be replaced with donated pavers, according to a story by Marybeth Niederkorn...
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What's in a name?
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/14/17)
People's names can be trendy. It's common to name babies after famous people, so names can date us to a certain period. (My name is Gary, which was popular back in the 1940's and 1950's.) And of course being a nation of immigrants, many of our names originated in other countries. But famous and foreign names aside, we are now in a different era regarding names...
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Medigap coverage bill
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/14/17)
I would like to address an issue that is rarely talked about or understood-kidney disease. A little over 2 years ago, after several months of severe stomach cramps, I was diagnosed with kidney failure. I used to ride my bicycle all over town, swim a mile at the gym and cut grass professionally, but now my life is centered around my dialysis sessions, three days a week, 5 hour treatments...
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Shipping containers or mud? There are options
(Column ~ 07/14/17)
Should shipping containers be used to create livable spaces in Cape Girardeau? That's a question currently before the city council. I was pleased to see that the council members voted to extend the city's moratorium on such projects rather than ban them outright. This gives everyone more time to assess shipping containers and their viability as permanent homes...
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Man trapped in ATM slips note to customers
(National News ~ 07/14/17)
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- Police said a Texas man who became trapped inside an ATM slipped notes to customers via the receipt slot, pleading for them to help him escape. Corpus Christi police Lt. Chris Hooper said the contractor became stuck Wednesday when he was changing a lock to a Bank of America room that leads to the ATM. The contractor, who had left his cellphone in his truck, passed notes through the ATM receipt slot to customers retrieving cash...
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U.S. charging 412 in health fraud schemes worth $1.3 billion
(National News ~ 07/14/17)
WASHINGTON -- More than 400 people have been charged with taking part in health-care fraud and opioid scams that totaled $1.3 billion in false billing, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday. Sessions called the collective action the "largest health-care fraud takedown operation in American history" and said it indicates some doctors, nurses and pharmacists "have chosen to violate their oaths and put greed ahead of their patients."...
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Education official apologizes anew, this time to victims
(National News ~ 07/14/17)
WASHINGTON -- The Education Department's top civil-rights official's "flippant" remarks were raising questions about the government's commitment to fighting campus sexual violence, even as she issued her second apology in as many days for attributing 90 percent of sexual-assault claims to both parties being drunk...
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American doctor: Treatment 'worth trying' in UK sick-baby case
(International News ~ 07/14/17)
LONDON -- An American doctor testifying in the case of a British couple seeking the right to take their critically ill infant to the United States for treatment said Thursday it was worth trying an experimental therapy that only recently had emerged...
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2 ex-Vatican hospital officials charged
(International News ~ 07/14/17)
VATICAN CITY -- The scandal was remarkable even by Vatican standards: The president of the "pope's hospital" for sick children had taken nearly a half-million dollars in hospital donations and used them to spruce up the penthouse apartment of the Vatican cardinal who had appointed him...
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McDonald's makes supersized effort to recover popularity
(National News ~ 07/14/17)
ROMEOVILLE, Ill. -- McDonald's is hoping to make a difference in its future seven seconds at a time. The company that helped define fast food is making supersized efforts to reverse its fading popularity and catch up to a landscape that has evolved around it. That includes expanding delivery and digital ordering kiosks in restaurants and rolling out an app that saves precious seconds...
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Political prisoner, Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo dies at age 61
(International News ~ 07/14/17)
SHENYANG, China -- Imprisoned for all the seven years since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo never renounced the pursuit of human rights in China, insisting on living a life of "honesty, responsibility and dignity." China's most prominent political prisoner died Thursday of liver cancer at 61...
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Wounded deputy still defying odds a year after deadly ambush
(National News ~ 07/14/17)
HOUSTON -- Doctors didn't expect Nick Tullier to survive after a gunman shot him in the head, stomach and shoulder during an ambush that killed three other law-enforcement officers last summer in Louisiana's capital city. A year later, the 42-year-old sheriff's deputy still is defying the odds and the grim prognosis issued after the July 17 attack...
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Source: Man killed 4 separately, burned them
(National News ~ 07/14/17)
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. -- A drug dealer has confessed to killing four young men separately after selling them marijuana and then burning their bodies at his family's farm, a person with firsthand knowledge of his confession said Thursday. The person spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss details of the case publicly...
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Trump, Macron look past differences on Paris climate pact
(International News ~ 07/14/17)
PARIS -- President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron set aside lingering differences on climate change during their meeting Thursday in France, asserting it shouldn't prevent them from working together toward a post-war roadmap for Syria and to enhance Mideast security...
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Trump: Son's Russia meeting 'standard campaign practice'
(National News ~ 07/14/17)
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Thursday defended his son's meeting with a Russian lawyer, characterizing it as standard campaign practice and maintaining "nothing happened" as a result of the June 2016 sit-down. The remarks in Paris during a joint news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron came even though Trump's own pick for FBI director has said authorities should be advised of requests to meet with foreign individuals during a campaign and even after Donald Trump Jr. ...
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GOP health bill teeters on the brink
(National News ~ 07/14/17)
WASHINGTON -- Republican leaders unveiled a new health-care bill Thursday in their effort to deliver on seven years of promises to repeal and replace "Obamacare." They immediately lost two key Senate votes, leaving none to spare as the party's own divisions put its top campaign pledge in serious jeopardy...
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Emmy nominations pit mainstream programs against niche fare
(Entertainment ~ 07/14/17)
LOS ANGELES -- "This Is Us." And that is them. When Emmy nominations were announced Thursday, one side of the TV coin hinted broadcast's cultural relevance might be staging a comeback. This was thanks largely to the 11 nods granted NBC's "This Is Us," which broke out last fall as something no one had seen in years: a hit mainstream family drama that had everybody talking (and sometimes choking up) while critics swooned...
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#SemoSelfie 7/14/17
(Entertainment ~ 07/14/17)
River hangs with my favorites #downtowncape #semoselfie @rivercityliz @dschuchart
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Out of the past: July 14
(Out of the Past ~ 07/14/17)
The National Weather Service says some relief from the weeklong string of hot, dry days may be near. There's a slight chance of thunderstorms late today, and that chance should increase by midweek as a frontal boundary that has stalled for over a week across Missouri, Iowa and northern Illinois begins to sag southward into central and southern Missouri...
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Audrey Richter
(Obituary ~ 07/14/17)
Audrey L. Richter, 81, of Jackson, formerly of New Wells, passed away Wednesday, July 12, 2017, at the Monticello House in Jackson. She was born June 8, 1936, in St. Louis, daughter of Earl L. and Marie Johnson Heider. She and Raymond W. Richter were married April 20, 1963...
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David Mills
(Obituary ~ 07/14/17)
MARQUAND, Mo. -- David Lee Mills, 55, of Marquand died Tuesday, July 11, 2017, at Southeast Hospital. in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 9 to 11 a.m. today at Liley Funeral Home in Patton, Missouri. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. today at the funeral home, with the Rev. Jamie Hovis officiating. Burial will be in Union Light Cemetery near Marquand...
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William Felty Jr.
(Obituary ~ 07/14/17)
O'FALLON, Mo. -- William M. "Bill" Felty Jr., 59, formerly of Jackson, passed away Wednesday, July 12, 2017, at his home in O'Fallon. He was born Feb. 13, 1958, in Cape Girardeau to William M. and Genece Sawyer Felty. He was a 1976 graduate of Jackson High School...
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Connie Cunningham
(Obituary ~ 07/14/17)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Connie Elaine Cunningham, 66, of Perryville passed away Thursday, July 6, 2017, at her home. She was born July 27, 1950, the daughter of Hansel Willie "Hank" and Dorothy Ellen Scranton Williams. She and Aaron Cunningham married April 17, 2004. He survives...
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Cape Girardeau fire report 7/14/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/14/17)
The Cape Girardeau Fire Department responded to the following calls: Tuesday n Medical assists were made at 2:40 a.m. on South Spring Avenue; 12:36 p.m. on North Kingshighway; 1:45 p.m. on South Pacific Street; 3:25 p.m. on Independence Street; 3:31 p.m. on Saint Francis Drive; 5:46 p.m. on South Ranney Avenue; 6:16 p.m. on North Main Street; and 9:11 p.m. on Hill Street...
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Cape Girardeau police report 7/14/17
(Police/Fire Report ~ 07/14/17)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department released the following items. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests n Tris D. Wickware, 41, 2209 Melrose Ave., was arrested on a Cape Girardeau County warrant. n A suspect was in custody pending formal charges of assault, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon and resisting arrest by fleeing in the 1000 block of Independence Street...
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Birth 7/14/17
(Births ~ 07/14/17)
Daughter to Robert Perry IV and Emily Lynn Maddox of Jackson, Southeast Hospital, 3:04 p.m. Friday, July 7, 2017. Name, Morrighan Aria. Weight, 7 pounds, 14 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Maddox is the former Emily Wilhite, daughter of Julie and Paul Speakman of Jackson. She is employed by US Bank. Maddox is the son of Rob and Lori Maddox of Advance, Missouri. He is employed by Loram Maintenance of Way Inc...
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New technology to help Ferguson police increase transparency
(State News ~ 07/14/17)
FERGUSON, Mo. — Police in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson are using new technology to improve transparency with the public nearly three years after an officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager. KSDK-TV reported the Ferguson Police Department is using a software program called LEFTA Systems that records the age, race and gender of a person an officer makes contact with. ...
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Missouri man found off trail apparently stranded for days
(State News ~ 07/14/17)
ST. CHARLES, Mo. — A man found injured off a trail near St. Louis apparently had been stranded in the area for days. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the man had been found by a passing bicyclist off the Katy Trail in the Weldon Spring Conservation Area on Tuesday. ...
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Sold Lake of the Ozarks' Tan-Tar-A resort to be renamed
(State News ~ 07/14/17)
OSAGE BEACH, Mo. — The Tan-Tar-A Resort at Lake of the Ozarks in southwestern Missouri is being sold and rebranded as Margaritaville. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the Missouri property will join a growing list of Margaritaville hotels located primarily in coastal locations, including Key West and the Cayman Islands. ...
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Springfield, Mo., school to use storefront as facility another year
(State News ~ 07/14/17)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Inside a storefront downtown, the team behind one of Springfield's newest and most unusual private schools has been meeting to plan a second year. The u.school opened two doors west of the Moxie Cinema in August and, over the first year, grew to include four teachers and 35 students in grades six to 12, the Springfield News-Leader reported...
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Missouri prisoner repeatedly assaulted; workers lied about checks
(State News ~ 07/14/17)
ST. LOUIS -- An investigation has found Missouri prison workers failed to check properly on an inmate whose cellmate repeatedly sexually and physically abused him in what the victim's attorney calls torture. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the state investigation report it obtained through an open-records request showed workers falsified logs and failed to follow procedures aimed at protecting inmates from other prisoners. ...
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St. Louis businesses pressured to keep $10 minimum wage
(State News ~ 07/14/17)
ST. LOUIS -- The $10 per hour minimum-wage law in St. Louis will be short-lived, but an effort launching today will encourage and pressure businesses to honor the higher wage even if state law doesn't require it. The "Save the Raise" campaign is being led by a coalition of groups including Show Me $15, Missouri Jobs with Justice, faith leaders and other supporters of a higher minimum wage...
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Missouri Ag Department lifts temporary halt to dicamba use
(Local News ~ 07/14/17)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Department of Agriculture has lifted a temporary halt to the use and sales of products labeled for agricultural use that contain the herbicide dicamba, saying it's satisfied by new safeguards involving the chemical...
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Fire in St. Louis destroys home built by Mark Twain's uncle
(State News ~ 07/14/17)
ST. LOUIS — An historic St. Louis home built in the 1800s by Mark Twain’s uncle has been destroyed by fire. The blaze broke out early Wednesday in the Greek-revival style home known as the James Clemens House, and it spread to at least two nearby buildings before more than 100 firefighters were able to bring it under control. ...
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Artifacts 7/14/17
(Entertainment ~ 07/14/17)
Local author and entrepreneur Adrienne Ross will hold a book signing from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Barnes & Noble, 3049 William St. in Cape Girardeau. Her two newest books are "Push Your Way to Purpose: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You're Meant to Be" and "Aunt Alma Unleashed: Old, Bold, and Out of Control."
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Best bet: Bow Wow Luau to be Saturday
(Entertainment ~ 07/14/17)
Deer Creek Doggie Day Camp will host its annual Bow Wow Luau from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at 2039 Cape LaCroix Road in Cape Girardeau. Costume contest, splash pools, doggie games, pet portraits with Elaine Rohde Photography and more will be held. Event is free; photo packages available for a fee. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/events/1321304291256024 or call (573) 803-1311.
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Prayer 7/14/17
(Prayer ~ 07/14/17)
Lord Jesus, we lift up praises to you, the author and perfecter of our faith. Amen.
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Emily with Gramma Karla's chicks
(Submitted Story ~ 07/14/17)
While in Pewaukee, Wi at our daughter Karla's, our great-granddaughter Emily Jane was there and was checking up on her grandma Karla's chickens. Her dad, our grandson Josiah and his wife, were visiting from Ft. Drum, NY where he is stationed with the Army...
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